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Slides from My OSLO “PDC Fireworks” Presentation

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The lightning talks went well, everyone was reasonably happy to sit through the presentations and I’m hoping people took away some nuggets of information that will help them divulge deeper.
My talk spawned a small drinking game (although with mimed drinks) from James. A drink for every time I said “model”. For an 8-10 minute talk [...]

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Getting Oslo’s Intellipad to show MGrammar Mode

Posted by Owen Evans on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

[EDIT: You can just launch Intellipad with Samples Enabled, from the Start Menu. For some reason my first port of call was to run Intellipad from the command line]
Ok I’m beginning to dive into Oslo, so I can at least Appear knowledgeable for the PDC Fireworks talk next week, but there was one thing that [...]

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Like footprints on the moon: beware your software legacy

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

This post has been brewing for some time:
A couple of weeks ago I was very amused to get a tweet from Daniel Cazzulino (the guy behind Moq)

The reason I found the text funny was the idea that Daniel found it strange to have legacy parts of an application within a year of starting the application. [...]

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Code Camping

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

So tomorrow morning i catch the redeye flight to Auckland to be at Code Camp and give a talk on the ASP.net MVC Framework. I’m hoping it goes down well, I’ve tried to aim it at just slightly above the beginner level, touching on Routing, Views, IoC and some more Contrib stuff, Filters, and JavaScript/Ajax [...]

CodeCamp: in need input

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Ok so this is a bit of a plea.
I’ve a week or so to work on my CodeCamp presentation “MVC and Me” (ok so would have been cooler to link to flight of the navigator but that’s too hard for me to pull off) and I’m still trying to gather as many ideas about what [...]

Split And Sprint

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

In a forthcoming book (before you ask I’ve no idea what the title is) there’s a little case study about the first project i ever truly worked on as a developer. The project and the team have some of my fondest memories, and I’d want to work with any of the people in the small [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-12

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

anyone want to do a codecamp lightning talk? http://pageofwords.com/blog/2008/08/12/DevCodeCampRegistrationsLightningTalks.aspx #
don’t you just hate it when your app breaks in the middle of a demo #
@stuartm yeah, luckly it was just environment setup for a test site… but suckes none the less #
just read an initial draft of a book extract about the first agile project [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-11

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I love pear drops num num num num #
ok been at least 2 years since i last had a hobnob, but man they are still my favourite buscuit… nom nom nom nom #
eyes are feeling really tired, wondering if i got a bit of eye strain #
@katforbes hmmm you’re right….. only just though. #
@katforbes [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-10

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

did not know i shared a birthday with wozniak http://tinyurl.com/yd459g whooo. Happy Birthday Woz. #
oh no… chef…. come back http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7552986.stm #
@Shadowfoot ha ha ha, that made me laugh #
@chakkaradeep thanks #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-09

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

snow came briefly to karori today, very cool #
thanks to @teamxero blog i just hit a new record with bgeek.net pageviews #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-08

Friday, August 8th, 2008

hmmmmm where to go for beers tonight?….. #
man it’s cold outside. #
@stuartm black harp ok with you? #
@teamxero thanks for giving me a podium http://is.gd/1j07 #
@stuartm well 4:30 sounds good to me, but prob a bit early can we say 5? anyone is welcome to join in, sent an invite round xero #
new blog [...]

Post 300

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Ok I just had to cheat an make up a reason to post. But this is my 300th post, this blog has been going for more than 5 years (25 Feb 2003 was my first post, those heady days of university). that’s 1992 days, so an average of one post every 6.64 days. (my goodness [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-07

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

@stuartm still have the headphones on my desk… is today gonna be the day? #
@stuartm he he he. sure? i might have to sell them na no worries, catch up tomorrow. perhaps pint after work? anyone else interested? #
debating selling my iMac and Vaio laptop and picking up a Macbook Pro. but don’t know [...]